XBOX One JTAG jailbreak… debunked! (survey scam)

It came to my attention that some websites pretend that there is an Xbox One jailbreak available right now. And they even offer it for free, who wouldn’t want that? Well, the Xbox One JTAG jailbreak offered on these sites is, of course, a fake. So it’s time for us to debunk this.

The site that came to my attention today is ps3portal dot net. I am not directly linking to their site as I wouldn’t want them to get more traffic. Here, just get a screenshot:

Wow, apparently, these guys have everything figured out. From PS4 Jailbreaks to PSN Code generators, and of course the XBox One JTAG Jailbreak. How did we miss such greatness? /sarcasm

The page claims you can download the JTAG Jailbreak for free, install it on a usb key, plug the usb key onto your Xbox One, and it will automatically install an Xbox One JTAG Jailbreak. The Jailbreak, they claim, lets you download all Xbox One games for free. This is, of course, a scam.

Xbox One JTAG Jailbreak – How does the ps3portal scam work?

The scam is extremely simple. The site lets you download a big archive from Mega or mediafire. In some regards, the file looks legit. Inside of the zip archive however, you’ll find another zip, which is password protected. The password can be acquired by going to another site, according to the readme.

Of course, once you go to that other site, there is no password to be found. Instead, you’ll have to fill in a survey, which once complete will supposedly give you the password.

The owners of scam site ps3portal get paid for every survey people fill, and this is how the scam works. Once you fill the survey, there is no password at the end of the line. If there is, you’ll probably find another password hunt inside of the zip file, and have to complete another survey. By the end of the day, you’ll have wasted a good part of your day, and you’ll have made them richer by filling the surveys.

This is a classic way for those scam sites to make money. It goes without saying that all the other “jailbreaks” or PSN Generators they claim to provide are running on the same tricks, and will not actually Jailbreak your console. Best case scenario, you’ll waste time. Worst case scenario, you might end up with a Virus on your PC. In all cases, these guys make money whenever you fill in the survey.

Xbox One Jailbreak – How you could have guessed by yourself that this was a scam

After years on the scene, it’s in general very easy to detect scams like this one. Of course, the first step is if popular scene websites such as our very own wololo.net don’t talk about this Xbox one JTAG Jailbreak, then there’s a reason.

But even without that, some basic technical knowledge could get you a long way. This specific scam claims to be a JTAG hack. the JTAG port is a specific debug entry on some motherboards, that has been useful in the past to hack consoles. But, as the name JTAG implies, hacking a console with a “JTAG hack” (such as the Xbox 360 JTAG hack) assumes you have access to the JTAG port. In other words, a JTAG hack would require additional hardware, a modchip, and/or some soldering skills. You’d need to open the console, access the port, and plug in some sort of device in there.

The JTAG hack on Xbox 360

Here, the hack claims to be a simple copy of some zip file on a usb key. If you’re not plugging anything to the JTAG port, this is *not* a JTAG jailbreak, and therefore the name only, combined with the claimed simplicity if the usb key, should trigger your “***” sensor to the max.

Conclusion

As always, avoid scam websites that pretend they have a solution nobody else knows about. If it looks too good to be true, then it’s a scam. If a site pretends they have a PS4 Jailbreak or an Xbox One JTAG jailbreak that nobody else knows about, ask yourself while major scene sites are not talking about it. The day a valid Jailbreak is out for the Xbox One, you can expect major scene websites such as wololo.net to frontpage the information. We also document up-to-date information on our XBox One Hack page. For the PS4, the infamous “Brazilian Jailbreak” is real, and we have documented it on our PS4 Jailbreak page.

PS3Portal is by far not the only site trying to trick people this way, so be careful, do not enrich scammers, and kindly point people to this debunk article whenever they think they’ve found an “Xbox One JTAG Jailbreak”.

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ikr, i remember a time when i thought these things were real and wasted a bit of time on it. sadly most people learn by experience since theres no ‘manual’ for these things. if it there were itd prob be ignored too lol

Easy way to tell something like this is a scam, check other websites…..ps3portal doesn’t seem like a site to be involved in Xbox news/hacks, they seem focused on PS3 (and if anything happens with PS4, they might post it too)….but still, if there is a REAL Xbox One hack, its going to be on multiple websites…if its not, wait a couple days and see if anyone else posts it. Its not hard to spread fake stuff. Rule of thumb…if you have to fill out a survey, it’s fake.

You stupid scammers !!! Get a job instead of trying to trick people in order to make money !!! This site also claims to have a jailbreak for ps3 that is ofw bigger than 3.55. They claim that you download a cfw in order to jailbreak ps3 in ofw like 4.76 ofw and you can do the downgrade it without a hardware flasher. They alswo have made a video of how to do it. And they say that you can do it in models that you can’t downgrade at all like ps3 cech-3000 or 4000

So fake and scam. be careful and stay away from these sites.

If a jailbreak for either ps4 or xbox one got releasead it would not be in survey sites.

Yeah. I had tried this when I had my ps vita. At first I bought it but then I realised that such thing at least now it has not been done yet. It led me to a survey site. I got tired of those suckers that want to make money from survey sites for things that has not been done yet in the scenes.

You guys are too skeptical. You should try it, it really works. I’ve just tested it by downloading Uncharted 3 off the Xbox store and it didn’t cost a penny, and yes that’s the full game not the demo you noobs.

Whilst it’s spot on about this and many of these quick-win hacks that require you to go though survey heck to never unlock – just about anything hidden behind a mandatory survey to ‘unlock’ is BS par excellence in terms of scams. However, the statement about real JTAG requiring a true hardware JTAG port isn’t strictly accurate – in fact, it’s a long way off accurate. Most JTAG access to devices are hardware linked – but there are such things as virtual JTAG which exists as a days stream tunneled over another stream/link that’s not low voltage hardware serial.

Good example that’s more public is the use of RTM hacks, which use a virtual JTAG over Ethernet/WiFi through a tunneled protocol to provide terminal access and a form of FTP. There’s also the virtual equiv of direct memory access methods too over a tunneled ‘JTAG’.

All is not as clear cut when it comes to more level data comms and terminal links as these articles try to make out.

In industry, virtual JTAG had been a backbone of remote terminal access to devices at a direct non-physical real-time comms level of direct live activity for diagnostics.

” I’m just saying, but unless it is really an over-inflated ego, shrinkage is not good. One may often feel surprised to find out every time a man with similar attributes is just popular among the girls as the others just don’t even find a lady. Just because you might be married doesn’t suggest you must stop trying to dress nice and shower everyday.

Xbox One S and Scorpio just came out so of course it is fake, no one has yet cracked the Xbox One and no one was able to crack 360 yes it did have rgh/jtag. But required you to be running old firmware and there was another issue M$ *** around the bushes swapping out hardware and vendors in an attempt to stop modders from changing anything. It made 360 the most expensive modding problem for its time, this time around its even harder because M$ encrypt not just the hardware but also the software. The only working hacks out are browser exploits and devmode.

[…] I usually chase the money. That website has no ads, no survey. There’s no financial reason for this to be an elaborate hoax, an I’d say they’re building up attention until the actual release of the product in December. […]

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